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GUIDE FOR TOP ROLL GLEARERS.

No. 411,388. Patented Sept. 17, 1889.

.WI IE EEI UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEIcE.

JOHN T. MEATS, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE MASON MACHINE WORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

GUIDE FOR TOP-ROLL CLEARERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,388, dated September 17', 1889,

Application filed July 15, 1889. Serial No. 317,572. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN T. MEATs, of Taunton, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Guides for Top-Roll Clearers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Spinning-machines as 110w made contain what is called a top-roll clearer, consisting of a large roll resting on the upper roll of the pair of front rolls and the roll next back of it.

My invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with a set of rolls and a clearerroll, of front and back saddles, each provided with a horn to operate substantially as will be described.

In practice, prior to my invention, the front saddle has been provided with two horns to receive the neck of the usual clearer-roll; but the said horns, in order to provide for adjustment of the rolls, have been set so far apart to thereby enable the rolls to be spread, as when changing from short to long staple cotton that the said horns fail to constitute a proper guide for the clearer-roll when the drawing-rolls are close together or when the staple is short.

A saddle with two horns does not, in my opinion, constitute as efficient a guide for the clearer-roll as when each saddle has a single horn, as provided for in my invention to be herein described.

Figure 1, in section, shows a set of drawing-rolls and clearer-roll thereon, together with my improved saddles; Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the rolls referred to. Fig. 3 shows the rolls spread apart from the position Fig. 1.

The pair of front, middle, and back rolls a b c and clearer-roll cl are and may be all as usual, and in practice the end journals of the said rolls a b cwill be supported in usual manner, so that the rolls 1) 0 maybe adjusted with relation to the front rolls for cotton of different lengths of staple.

The rolls a l) c referred to have central necks on which rest the saddles to be described.

To enable the same front and back saddles to be used to equal advantage with the rolls under all adjustments, and to enable the horns to stand just above the front and middle rolls in all adjustments thereof and at equal distances at each side of the neck of the clearer-roll, I have provided the front saddle f with a horn f and the back saddle g with a horn g.

Figs. 1 and 3 show the rolls in different positions, and it will be seen in Fig. 3 that the horn 9 follows the adjustment of the back and middle rolls.

The saddle f has connected to it a longitudinally adjustable stirrup composed, as shown, of rods 4t and 5, having an intermediate nut, the rotation of which may be made to lengthen or shorten the rod, and a link 7. The link 7 is shown as provided with a seat 8 and a nut 10, the seat receiving upon it the teat 12 of the weight-lever A, the end 14 of the said lever acting against the frame-work B, of usual construction.

It will be understood that it is more necessary to hold the neck of the clearer-roll at each side when the drawing-rolls are close together, for then the clearer-roll does not have opportunity to settle between the rolls, as a I), as in Fig.

Prior to my invention I am aware that a saddle has been provided with two horns, as

- in United States Patent No. 205,062; but when the horns are set sufficiently far apart to permit the rolls to be separated and the clearerroll to follow down between them then the said horns fail to come properly against the sides of the neck of the clearer-roll when the rolls a b are close together, and as a result thereof the clearer-roll is not retained securely in position above the rolls a b.

I do not claim to be the first inventor of an adjustable stirrup.

I do not claim a saddle having two horns.

I claim- The combination, with the drawing-rolls and clearer-roll, of a front and back saddle, each provided with a horn to receive between them theneck of the clearer roll, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J(,')IIN' 'l. MEATS. Witnesses:

Gno. W. GREGORY, B. DEVVAR. 

